0 a state of freedom from all suffering that Buddhists believe can be achieved by removing all personal wishes --
Three years after his nirvana, his tomb was opened, only to reveal that the body had not decayed.
As a result of these understandings bodhisattvas manifest meditative wisdom and avoid attachment to either cyclic existence or nirvana.
Nirvana is also regarded as the end of the world, in that no personal identity or boundaries of the mind remain.
Among other things, they were asked to change the word nirvana into kafana.
Buddhists pursue meditation as part of the path toward enlightenment and nirvana.
However, when a person attains nirvana, they are liberated from karmic rebirth.
The discourses do not support seeing the luminous mind as nirvana within which exists prior to liberation.
Also, according to him, only the compounded and conditioned is non-self - not nirvana.